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I do appreciate that very much! I'm only interested in analog audio personally, tried your alsa-state and setting all the DAC output volumes low but the sound wasn't only distorted but probably the sample rate was incorrect which caused the pitch-down effect. Maybe I got the kernels mixed up. I'll give it another try with the minimal image and try to install an X server to be able to run SunVox, from a quick browse around the forum it seems like xorg is the way to go? Will report back with my results. =)

@guidol Thanks for trying it out for me! Wasn't expecting it to be such a smooth process to build Armbian, but I did ending up trying it out for myself. Made one Armbian_20.05.0-trunk_Nanopia64_buster_dev_5.6.8_desktop, with your alsa savestate the sound was very very distorted. Both as in gain not possible to set without severe clipping (tried setting all the levels in alsamixer to very low but barely any difference) but also it sounded like the sample rate wasn't correct, audio was pitched down. Tried setting it to 44100 in .asoundsrc but that didn't help This morning I had finished building Armbian_20.05.0-trunk_Nanopia64_bullseye_dev_5.6.8_desktop. Here the desktop env flickers very badly with 0 or more windows open, for more than one the GUI toggles between the open windows in a very epilepsy-inducing manner. Shame that there seems to be so many issues with the desktop env, I was hoping this would be a viable setup for a portable SunVox-machine. I remember it running very smoothly on the desktop builds provided by FriendlyArm, but these I can't even get to boot anymore for some reason. Tried downloading both from the old MediaFire folders and the new MegaUpload hosting place. Maybe I'll give another shot at installing a headless again with the Mate desktop env. Analog audio out or bust for my part Oh, and if I don't reply again in a while it seems that new users can't post too often. Spambot protection is serious over here.

@guidol Awesome work, this Nanopi of mine has been living in a drawer for quite a while, very nice to see it getting some extended life. I did almost as you said, downloaded the Armbian buster image and the linked dts from this thread, then cp ./sun50i-a64-nanopi-a64_guido_562.dtb /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-nanopi-a64.dtb Tried the minimal image with fossa first with the right kernel, but couldn't get the desktop environment working very good. On booting I get this Welcome to Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.33-sunxi64 aplay gives me m@nanopia64:~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: allwinnerhdmi [allwinner,hdmi], device 0: 1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 No analog audio as you can see and there are no settings in alsamixer that can enable it either. The upper USB port works fine now though. Using armbian-config -> system -> other to switch kernel gives me this error. Test install failed. Can't change firmware, Check /tmp/switch_kernel.log This file contains: linux-image-dev-sunxi64=20.05.0-trunk.117 linux-dtb-dev-sunxi64=20.05.0-trunk.117 linux-u-boot-nanopia64-dev This matches the behaviors for all the 5.6.2 kernels in armbian-config too. Seems strange, all other updates and installations are going fine. Noticed there was a minimal image under the downloads section yesterday so maybe I'll just have to try to have a little patience for a desktop build in the coming days.